Isle of Skye, Scotland
Fairy Glen
This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
Inuvik, Unorganized, Northwest Territories
These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.
Antarctica
Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.
East Tigray, Ethiopia
Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
Salvador, Brazil
This modernist building is the last remnant of an ambitious plan to restore a neighborhood.
Porto Seguro, Brazil
This stone monument marks the beginning of Portugal's presence in Brazil.
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.
Bonito, Brazil
Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.
Santa Terezinha, Brazil
High plateaus and beautiful waterfalls frame this ecologically significant nature preserve.
Brazil
Unusual rock formations eroded into a landscape of stone beasts.
Chaves, Brazil
Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.
Santo Amaro do Maranhão, Brazil
A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.
Fort Bragg, California
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
Brooklyn, New York
Ride the subways of yesteryear.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
New York, New York
A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
Chicago, Illinois
Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Iceland
The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.
Brooklyn, New York
Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.